This map, drawn by Thomas Kitchin in 1772 and titled "COMMUNICATION
betwen ALBANY and OSWEGO" is the best map of the inland waterway
corridor connecting the upper Hudson River with the Great Lakes during the
period when it was in use for naviagtion.

The eastern portion of the map shows the settlement at Albany, the portage road
to the Mohawk River at Schenectady, and the Mohawk River channel running west
as far as the Carrying Place at Fort Stanwix.

A view of the western end of the Mohawk navigation, "the Neck", and the Oneida Carrying Place.
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The western portion of the map shows the route west from the portage at
Fort Stanwix (Rome), down tiny Wood Creek, across Oneida Lake, and then down the
Oneida River (mis-labeled the Onandaga) and the Oswego River to the
entrance into the Great Lakes at Oswego on Lake Ontario.